Propos d'un Solitaire. L'Architecture: Un Art...Un Métier

by Pontremoli, Emmanuel

130 pp., autobiography and essays on architecture by the architect and director of the École des Beaux-Arts (1932-37), with a tribute by J. Marrast and afterword by Paul Leon, discussing Pontremoli's own education, principal projects and commissions, and the teaching and profession of architecture in France, including curriculum vitae, illus. (some in color) plates after architectural drawings and plans, photographs, and sketches. Large 4to. Wrpps. Vanves 1959. This scarce volume describes the life of the architect, winner of the Prix de Rome (1890), and best known for his Neo-Classical buildilngs including the Kérylos villa in Beaulieu-sur-Mer and his illustrated surveys of classical architecture in Greece, Italy and Asia Minor. The formal plans, fanciful sketches, and more casual landscapes reproduced in this volume attest to his adept blending of a conservative education with the modern philosophies and styles of the early 20th century. As of January 2014, OCLC locates only 2 copies in North America. (Inventory #: 47742)

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